4 April 2007Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 19 - Issue No: 26






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Chandra announces breakaway cricket league
ICL to be set up with Rs 1 billion corpus, initially comprising six teams, with annual prize purse of $ 1 million.

Delhi HC disposes off Cas LPA, wants implementation 'in letter and spirit'
Delhi HC disposes off Cas case, reiterates earlier orders regarding implementation of Cas "in letter and spirit".

Competing MSO cannot be broadcaster's agent: SC
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the judgment passed last year by TDSAT that a competing MSO cannot be the agent of a broadcaster.

Swarup new I&B secy, SK Arora moved to youth affairs

Sahara One CEO Shantonu Aditya quits

NDTV launches reality show on education

Novavision sells 'Zeze Candid Camera' series to UTV

Idea IIFA Award's nominations announced

Big FM launches in Bareilly

BBC World unveils global attitudes to climate change

Gamco to install satellite TV systems on Kingfisher Airlines' Airbus A320

4Kids Ent. to sell 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Fast Forward ' at MipTV


Highlight - Sujata Kumar’s brave encounter with cancer
Meet Zee's Teen Bahuraniyaans
Interview with Karan Grover
Grapevine - Sarabhai v/s Moneybhai

TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (18/03/2007 to 24/03/2007)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (18/03/2007 to 24/03/2007)
MAX
Star Plus
SAB
Zee TV
Sun TV
DD1
Zee Cinema


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Today's Newsbreakers.......India
    		• ACT ties up with BBC Worldwide
    		• Govt to give 90 FM radio licences soon
    		• Sun TV asked to give signals to TataSky in 3 days
    		• Radio ga ga for Uttar Pradesh polls
    		• Sify expects 25-30% of revenues from global IMS business
    		• Abhishek-Ash Wedding: It's Hello or OK
    		• TV ad rates to zoom 30% on rising eyeballs
    		•  Resale of global bandwidth may not lead to price cuts
    Source: Economic Times
      
    		• Sanguine Media to tap entertainment industry
    		• TDSAT asks Sun TV to give signals to TataSky in 3 days
    		• Cong misusing Doordarshan, alleges BJP
    		• Zee announces parallel cricket league
    Source:The Hindu
     
    		• Ad firms welcome Zee's cricket league
    		• Chandra does a Packer with India Cricket League
    		• Toon rise
    Source: Business Standard
      
    		• Sanjaya's MySpace blogger quits hunger strike
    Source: www.indiaenews.com
      
    		• Pak may lift restrictions on Indian TV channels
    		• Zee floats Twenty20 league
    		• Shots fired inside CNN HQ; two wounded
    		• Star ‘Tulsi’ missing, BJP launches audio-visual war
    Source: Indian Express
     
    		• TDSAT asks Sun TV to give signals to TataSky in 3 days
    		• Kairali plans youth channel
    		• Zee launches Rs 100-crore cricket league
    		• MTNL floats Rs 210-cr broadband tender
    		• Sanguine Media to tap entertainment industry
    		• Western India Trustee cuts stake in PVR
    Source: Hindu Business Line
      
    		• Asha Swarup is new I&B Secretary
    		• Late-night TV: Too hot for govt to handle?
    		• Zee boss does a Packer on BCCI
    		• Modi takes Montek's time over Mallika
    		• Europe launches antitrust probe against iTunes
    Source: Times of India
      
    		• Subhash Chandra to do a Kerry Packer
    		• Sun TV told to give signals to TataSky in 3 days
    Source: Financial Express
      
    		• Advertisers rewrite rules for cricket pitches
    		• MySpace plans virtual US presidential primary vote
    		• 'Moral policing has to be imposed by every individual on himself
    		• ‘I am not doing a Kerry Packer’
    		• Zee league aims to revive Indian cricket
    		• ‘Kituu’ to go off air
    Source: DNA
     
    International News
    		• Gromit animators sign Sony deal
    Source: BBC
     
    		• Disney parks in Japan mark record 25.82 million visitors in 2006
    Source: Monsters and Critics
     
    		• SABC, PSL broadcasting interdict extended
    Source: IOL
     
    		• China's first direct radio and television broadcasting system under construction
    Source: People's Daily Online
     
    		• EU launches antitrust probe into iTunes
    Source: BusinessWeek
     
    		• Motorola Chief Resigns as Time Warner Director
    Source: www.wirelessweek.com
     
    		• Mexico's Telmex agrees to buy two Colombian cable TV companies
    Source: IHT
     
    		• Malone's compensated $3.3M at Liberty
    Source: Hemscott
    		• News Corp. Shareholders Approve Liberty Asset Swap
    Source: Bloomberg
     
    		•  Taiwan TV station chief quits over gangster video
    		•  KOREA: Cable program providers to be affected
    Source: Asia Media
     
    		• 'Black Donnellys,' '7th Heaven,' 'Wedding Bells,' 'Six Degrees' Cancelled
    		• Hopkins Takes Reins at Fox Cable Nets
    		• Cities Launch Battle Against FCC Cable Order
    Source: TV Week
     
    		• Report: Tennant signs for more 'Doctor Who'
    		• BBC awards celebrate 40 years of local radio
    		• Woman killed in CNN Center shooting
    Source: Digital Spy (UK)
     
    		• ESPN, Cartoon Net Q1 Ratings Slide; Court TV, Hallmark See Gains
    Source: Media Week (US)
     
    		• Dubai: Welfare body hits out at sleazy television channels
    Source: Gulf News
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